Premiering on October 2nd on The CW, season six will jump ahead and explore beyond Mystic Falls.

“The way we look at it, season six is a beautiful and organic reset. The theme of the season is everybody gets to start over. That’s what we’re going to do,” executive producer Julie Plec told THR. “We’re trying to take the show away from the massive genre extravaganza where each season we try to top each other with the bigger, bad, more exciting mythologies and boil it back down to the beginning.”

@night magic: I have a weird feeling now that Damon & Bonnie are supposedly dead & on the other side with only each other to keep company, that they’re going to hook up. They’ll justify it by saying that they thought they would never see Elena again, but much to their surprise they end up being brought back to life again and having to explain themselves to her. lol